Tag: MIT
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…
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Art, science, engineering intersect at Koch Image Gallery 2017
Cambridge writer and photographer Anita Harris was wowed by the new exhibit of arty science images at MOT’s Koch Institute. The display, at 500 Main Street, is free to the public. It’s on until March, 2018.
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Vote for National Convergence Idea Challenge Winner by Thurs, 6/23/2016
Phil Sharp of the MIT Koch Institute invites the public to vote in the first “Convergence Idea Challenge.” Offering $4000 in prizes aimed at challenging emerging researchers to combine the life/physical sciences, information technology, social sciences, and engineering to improve human health.
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Marathon bomb mourners honor slain MIT officer
Following a statewide moment of silence for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath, mourners for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier held vigil and wrote messages of thanks and condolence on the sidewalk near Vassar St. in Kendall Square, Cambridge.
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Nine-Day Cambridge Science Festival Showcases City’s Tech Prowess
Join me at the Cambridge Science Festival Cambridge Innovation Center Open House (or attend a myriad of other events) through May 3.